When Will Ferrell's good friend Harper comes out as a trans woman, they take a road trip to bond and reintroduce Harper to the country as her true self.

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Will & Harper (2024)

★ 7.3/10 September 12, 2024 114 min

ComedyDocumentary

Director: Josh Greenbaum

When Will Ferrell's good friend Harper comes out as a trans woman, they take a road trip to bond and reintroduce Harper to the country as her true self.

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Will Ferrell Will Ferrell Self Harper Steele Harper Steele Self Tim Meadows Tim Meadows Self Seth Meyers Seth Meyers Self Kristen Wiig Kristen Wiig Self Colin Jost Colin Jost Self Lorne Michaels Lorne Michaels Self Will Forte Will Forte Self Tina Fey Tina Fey Self Paula Pell Paula Pell Self Molly Shannon Molly Shannon Self Fred Armisen Fred Armisen Self

User Reviews (2)

CinemaSerf
CinemaSerf September 26, 2024
★ 6/10

Will Ferrell met Andrew Steele whilst both worked on "Saturday Night Live". The latter becomes the chief writer on the popular satirical show that started Ferrell on his road to stardom, and the two men became close personal friends. Advance several years and the now 61 years old Steele has written to his friend informing him of his decision to transition into Harper. This fruition of a visceral need to become the woman he always knew he needed to be to be fulfilled and happy has not come without it's trepidations - not least a wariness as to how close friends and his two children are going to deal with this news. Ferrell is nervous as to how to proceed and suggests the best way to really get to grips with this new situation is to take a road trip to some of the places Steele had gone to as a man, and see how the pair deal with these locations now that he is a very deep voiced woman. Wha…

Brent Marchant
Brent Marchant October 11, 2024
★ 8/10

Friendship is one of those subjects that doesn’t receive nearly enough attention in the movies. Yet, when we look at the many different forms it can take, it certainly provides plenty of fodder for engaging storytelling, given that it’s a topic we can all ultimately relate to. Films that explore particularly fascinating examples of this are among the best, as is the case with the latest documentary release from director Josh Greenbaum, a road trip/“buddy” movie about the friendship between actor Will Ferrell and comedy writer Harper Steele. The longtime friends met years ago when they worked together on Saturday Night Live, but things were somewhat different at that time: Harper was Andrew back then, but he had been quietly harboring feelings about what it would be like to transition to become a woman. After years of hiding this consuming secret, in 2020, Andrew made the decision…